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Pottermore Loses Chief Wizard to HarperCollins

Charlie Redmayne is leaving Pottermore for a familiar company: HarperCollins.

He will be the new CEO of HarperCollins UK, leaving the same position at Pottermore. Redmayne came to Pottermore from HarperCollins, where he was chief digital officer.

Redmayne shook the book publishing world last year when he led Pottermore into ebook sales relationships with Amazon and other retailers that had beforehand been unheard of. Pottermore arranged to have Amazon and others send readers to it to buy ebooks, thereby giving Pottermore control of the consumer relationships and data.

China Getting Stricter on Piracy? (DBW)
Chinese authorities are prodding Apple, Amazon and others to disclose what they’re doing about intellectual property piracy in a larger effort to stem the problem in the country.

The Week That Was (Good E Reader)
Good E Reader and Digital Book World discuss the week that was on this podcast: Random-Penguin, the American Library Association meeting in Chicago and what’s next for Barnes & Noble.